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Nov 9, 2023 17:19:55   #
rehess wrote:
As a matter of fact I do know the first.
I don’t thoroughly know the second, or I would work for Sony.
Do you?

Well, if you had known the the answer to the first question "do you know what a global shutter is?" why would you have made such a statement as this, you would have been sure?
rehess wrote:
I’m not sure a ‘global shutter’ can’t be used with a DSLR.
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Nov 9, 2023 16:54:05   #
rehess wrote:
I’m not sure a ‘global shutter’ can’t be used with a DSLR.

Do you know what a 'global shutter is and how it works'?
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Nov 8, 2023 18:18:15   #
rehess wrote:
The OP asked what we know about the Zf. I have heard complaints about “balance”. That is what I know. I diectly addressed him at first, then you directly addressed me. If you don’t care about what I know, you always have the option of not reading ……. which is what I will do now, because I am throughly tired of your comments. [unwatch]

Here's a blunt suggestion for you. Read what you have written, to whom, and stop making things up.
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Nov 8, 2023 17:40:33   #
rehess wrote:
The OP never said what the Zf should be compared to.

So? If you want to compare it to other cameras why not respond to the Op? Why do you persist in responding to me?
rehess wrote:
How does it compare to the D500 in handling and in focusing - and in price and in using older lenses????

How about you, rather than garbling on with your non stop irrelevant responses to me that have absolutely nothing to do with anything I have said actually use your time to learn something?

If you want to know how a Zf compares to the D500 do the research, learn, and respond directly to the Op, if you consider that information may be useful to him. I'm not in the slightest interested. You then may be able to produce something constructive to a thread.
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Nov 8, 2023 17:20:11   #
rehess wrote:
The world does not revolve around Nikon.

Did you notice the thread title? Did you notice the Op's question in his first post?
rehess wrote:
I don’t know how Nikon’s focusing compares to that of Canon and Sony. I don’t even know how the Zf’s focusing compares to that of the D500 - all things which you would have to take in consideration.

So you don't know a lot but still persist in garbling on with your responses to me.
rehess wrote:
I have heard complaints about “balance”. Punct.

Wow, I've heard complaints about a dog down the road that barks a lot and someone's wife's bad cooking.
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Nov 8, 2023 16:55:28   #
rehess wrote:
My opinions don’t matter. What does matter is actual practice. I have been hearing comments about “balance” of bodies and long lenses, which depends on what I call “a handle”. Apparently people have gotten into the habit of shooting one-handed with long lenses {I use two hands - supporting lens with left hand while supporting body with right hand - which works well with my “retro” camera from 1983}.

How many more clues do you need?

Why do you keep responding to me and garbling on about something totally off topic to the very specific subject I touched on in answer to a specific question, which was, the Zf's AF advantage over certain other Z series cameras.

Go share your opinions regarding T90's, actual practice, balance, retro, long lenses, handles, habits and what you had from 1983 with someone that's interested.
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Nov 8, 2023 16:28:11   #
rehess wrote:
The T90 design was supposed to be very ergonomic. The {existing} “retro” design, not so much.

So? I have not got the slightest interest in your opinions regarding some T90 or what you consider regarding retro design.
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Nov 8, 2023 15:38:40   #
rehess wrote:
The Canon T90 was designed by an industrial designer to be ‘ergonomic’, and most cameras since then have “handles” like it did. The “Zf” harkens back to the time ‘before then’.

So?
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Nov 8, 2023 13:39:26   #
rehess wrote:
Why would you purchase a ‘Zf’ instead of a longer established ‘Z’ camera???

One very obvious reason could be its AF ability.

The Zf at around $2000 comes with the superb 3D tracking AF which is only available, at present, on the Z8 at $4000 and the Z9 at an even higher cost. For some, this function is an absolute game changer.
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Nov 8, 2023 04:03:40   #
Having just had another go to refresh my memory here's the quickest way to do it in PS. Not having lots of images of the same person to hand I just chose 3 images with a full height subject in different positions within the frame and different sizes. Object was to get them all the same height in the centre of a 2x3 vert crop.

a) Place your selected jpeg files (these will be uncropped, colour balanced PPd images) in a folder and for ease name them 1 to 8. (This is not essential)
b) In PS go to File/Scripts/Load Files Into Stack. Select the Files you want to use and select OK.
c) These files will then be loaded into PS as layers showing file names and on top of one another.
See Pic 1 for Info.

d) Select the lower layer by turning off the ones above it and place guide lines as your datum for getting the others to match.
See Pic 2 for Info.

e) Select both lower layer and one above it but reduce this one to 50% opacity. You can then move that layer around and resize as required to obtain good alignment. Repeat for each layer in turn.
See Pic 3 for Info.

f) When all layers are aligned place the crop tool box where you want to crop them.
See Pic 4 for info.

g) Ensure you return opacity of each layer to 100%. Select each layer in turn with all others off. Export each layer in turn to a known folder. They will all be the same pixel width and height and you can change this to whatever you require.

Pic 5 are the results side by side

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Nov 7, 2023 23:34:52   #
Rick from NY wrote:
Playing with my Z8 at 20fps shooting a buddy playing tennis. (At 20/fps, I’m gonna need some extra CF cards.)

So I have a nice 8 frame sequence culled from a 20 plus burst that I’m processing and I don’t know how to crop all 8 so the player remains the same size and location in each image. Since he was attacking forward and I was following his movement with my camera, he’s never in the same place in the loosely framed shot. I’d like to have the resulting finished images to show him the same size and roughly the same place. Cropping each one separately trying to do it by eye is tedious and not very effective.

Any of you PS wizards know a better way to do this? I assume there has to be a better way.
Playing with my Z8 at 20fps shooting a buddy playi... (show quote)

Undertook something similar a while ago and from what I recall, all images were opened in PS (following any post work in ACR).

I then selected 1 image and dropped the others onto it one at a time and adjusted their position and scale to match. This is easily done by lowering opacity of each in turn, in addition I placed two guide lines horizontally to assist alignment.

The resulting layers on top of each other were then all cropped, retaining alignment, and then the pixel size of each cropped layer made equal.

The exercise was undertaken to produce equal sized subject and image files to place together to make this banner.


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Nov 7, 2023 21:22:20   #
Longshadow wrote:
I was discussing lenses that extend........

In response to a comment that was very clearly to do with a lens that does not extend, really.
Seems there are those that just want to respond to someone's comment for the sake of it, taking absolutely no notice of what that person has said.
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Nov 7, 2023 20:37:30   #
Longshadow wrote:
Is your premise on the fact that the cylinder you reference does not change size (length)? My lens changes overall length...

If you took some time to read and understand why a comment has been made in reference to someone else's comment you would not need to ask so many questions.

Within this thread larrypage made the following comment'
larryepage wrote:
The fact is that internal zooms also draw in and exhaust air when zoomed,

Note the word "internal", and to this specific comment I made the following response.
Grahame wrote:
They can also be designed so that there is a balance between the areas so that nothing is drawn in or exhausted out, simply exchanged.

You then responded to my comment,
Longshadow wrote:
That would be interesting.
Where is the air stored?

I am not discussing your lens, any lens that extends externally on zooming but solely internal zooming lenses.
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Nov 7, 2023 20:17:36   #
Hip Coyote wrote:
I predict this is just the beginning of the end for still cameras. With the Olympus' Pro Capture mode, now being copied by Pany and Nikon, the no mechanical shutters, global shutters, ever increasing write speeds and increasingly cheap data storage, eventually people will simply take a short video and be able to pull out the perfect moment, maybe 50 meg capture, with no real figurin' by the photographer. Noise will be gone, performance in near darkness will be excellent. Watch the short video, click a button for the exact right moment, and its a done deal.
I predict this is just the beginning of the end fo... (show quote)

But then we will need an Ai APP to make the decision as to whether frame 329,678 is sharper and more pleasing than frame 326,301, or was it frame 302,153?
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Nov 7, 2023 20:10:22   #
Interesting to hear the differing views regarding the use of a specific term used in photography. I use the term 'shoot' and 'shooting' regularly to describe the action of taking pictures but have lived in a country for many years where I can't recall a single gun crime.
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